Product Description

Introducing Pinnacle Studio version 8: the total video-editing solution for your desktop or laptop PC. Simply capture your video footage and then use the professional editing features like scene transitions, title effects, and fast/slow motion to create compelling movies. After you've edited your video, you can output to tape or burn your movies to a CD or DVD that will play on most living room DVD players.Studio version 8 makes editing movies on your PC or laptop easier than ever. Pinnacle Studio software allows you to drag-and-drop your captured video footage onto the editing timeline and assemble a movie in mere minutes. Then add professional 3D scene transitions, some background music, a couple of title effects, and get ready to show the world your finished masterpiece. Share your special moments with family and friends on DVD! With Studio version 8, you can burn a disc with your CD or DVD burner that will play in most set-top DVD players. Plus, there are advanced authoring features that allow you to create multiple linked menus, motion menus, and motion buttons. Now you can turn hours of home video into Hollywood-style movies on CD/DVD that no one will want to miss. Pinnacle Studio AV version 8 includes Studio version 8 software and an analog capture card for owners of analog video camcorders.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116446 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pinnacle
• Model: 210100187
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Customer Reviews

Buggy, never really worked
The editing features are good and it is easy to learn and use. But it was difficult to install, the tech support is poor and after many tries I could never got it to work right. It crashed constantly, and would not produce some of the file types listed. I really wanted to use this software, so I spent a lot of time trying to get technical support. My problems were never resolved.

Pinnacle has a lot to learn!
I was very excited when I purchased this package. A PCI video I/O card and what looked like awesome software at such a great price! What could be better? Let me tell you...

The software [isn't very good]! It is prone to crashing while rendering as well as at other times. The capture driver is a HUGE disappointment in that it's not compatible with most other software. Adobe Premiere 6 can't use it, and none of the other software that I like to use will work with it. The biggest problem is that Studio 8 outputs files that are not compatible with most freeware editing software and some good commercial packages. TMpeg can't decode the supposedly standard MPEG file that Studio 8 renders and the AVI files it puts out are garbage with the sound cutting out for a split second randomly throughout the entire video.

If you are only going to use the Studio 8 software that comes with it to go direct to disc, you might be ok, but don't plan on doing any serious work with this thing! It should work for the amateur who wants to transfer home movies to VCD or DVD, but I wouldn't recommend it for anything beyond that!

I had better compatibility with my ATI All-In-Wonder Pro card of yesteryear!

A change in the Pinnacle capture driver would be a big improvement and make this card a serious contender in the video editing market for almost any user!

Lots of potential, little results
I was really excited to try this product, but after hours and hours of frustration, I finally gave up. On the surface, the GUI interface is very slick and it seems like Studio 8 could do everything I wanted (record analog video, edit, and create VCD's). It has nice editing features that are fairly intuitive. However, the application locked up or crashed regularly (I installed v8.8). You can use the auto-save feature to help minimize loss of work. When it was running, I was constantly encountering little quirks and made the user's experience frustrating. Plus, it was painfully slow on my PC (P3, 1GHz, 384MB RAM, WinME). Pinnacle should reduce the GUI 'fanciness' and work on making it run faster and smoother. It seems that it would be a great product, if it worked as promised. My recommendation: Wait for Studio 10!